Inside The Butterfly Cage: A Deaf Teacher’s Story

How do you teach hearing people about audism in a way that invites conversation rather than defensiveness? One strategy is humor, and Rachel Zemach does this beautifully in her memoir The Butterfly Cage. She shows the hilarious encounters she faced navigating a school system as a Deaf teacher, and she also shows how these systems can improve. But it’s her students, overjoyed to learn ASL and build…